The Constitution Project seeks consensus solutions to difficult legal and constitutional issues. It does this through constructive dialogue across ideological and partisan lines, and through scholarship, activism, and public education efforts.

 
The Constitution Project has earned wide-ranging respect for its expertise and reports, including practical material designed to make constitutional issues a part of ordinary political debate. The media, government officials, and interested organizations frequently call on us for information, interviews, and speaking engagements. We have testified before federal and state legislative committees, and our work has been cited in numerous reports and studies by government agencies, the media, and law and policy organizations. In addition, our blue-ribbon committee members frequently write opinion pieces and are often quoted in news articles.

 
The Constitution Project has seven distinguished bipartisan, blue-ribbon committees. The committees have produced a number of reports and other resource material that serve as excellent education tools for experts and the general public. They are:

• The Constitutional Amendments Committee
• The Courts Committee
• The Death Penalty Committee
• The Liberty and Security Committee
• The Right to Counsel Committee
• The Sentencing Committee
• The War Powers Committee

In addition to our consensus recommendations and reports, the Constitution Project sponsors events and panels on important legal issues of the day. Please see our calendar for upcoming events.

The Constitution Project also files amicus curiae (friend of the court) briefs in important court cases urging adoption of its consensus reforms. Our briefs have been influential in many of these cases. Our amicus briefs are housed in the library section of the site.